So beautiful and so sad. It's a fragging shame that no one seem to be doing anything to preserve such monuments.

"You're a pretty cool guy" - Mabool"the social democrats don't give a frag about changing this capitalist system [...] so they can lick my greasy peanut buttered balls like the dog they are." - Greenanarchism

I bet the Bulgarian authorities wish to erase every trace of their Marxist history from the trail and by leaving the monument to rot, they present themselves to the world as a modern, capitalist country.

it's a pretty lousy park to be honest. small and not that much to see. in slovenia we have statues like this all around in the cities, parks and streets. it might sounds like an interesting attraction but honestly it's just a way to deal with "unwanted" past.

What ever the capitalists do, they'll never be able to do anything about Lenin's bust in Antartica.

I hadn't heard of this one:

When they finish melting the Poles the statue will be in an even harder place to visit.

Even if the current regime in Bulgaria holds no love for Communism. They should still protect this stuff as part of their heritage and history. Apart from anything else preserving such structures could be justified in the same way that they have Holocaust memorials (I'm not equating them - just imagining arguments they could use).

Yeah, that's the Lenin bust I was referring to. I read about it in an article a year and a half ago- some expedition team took a hike to the pole of inaccessibility, where an old soviet research station was. What's funny is that's the top of a mostly buried cabin:

Anyways going back to these Bulgarian relics, I like the amphitheater looking one. Are there any pictures of it in better times?

I have some pictures from my hometown as well if anyone is interested? There are some monuments left from our Socialist years.

P.S. In the article about the new museum it states that the Buzludja monument will be given back to the Socialist Party to do with it as it pleases. I think they will try and restore some of it, seen as they hold rallies there every year